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Title: Carol Waymire collection of periodicals and ephemera
Collection number: 2172
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.2 linear ft.
(7 document boxes, 1 flat box)
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1974-1986
Date (inclusive): 1910-1993
Abstract: Carol Marie Waymire is a California based lawyer who served underrepresented communities through her work on immigration law,
rights of undocumented workers, racial and sexual discrimination, workers rights on the job, and child custody for gay parents.
This collection contains materials collected by Carol Waymire. It is primarily comprised of periodicals, but also includes
ephemera and informational literature; these materials are all related to her lesbian, gay, feminist, and/or socialist interests
and cover a wide range of cultural, economic and political spheres as well as publication location.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
Waymire, Carol
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Carol Waymire Collection of Periodicals and Ephmera (Collection 2172). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7197482
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Provenance unknown.
This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives,
the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW)
and the UCLA Library.
Processed by Pallavi Sriram in 2013 in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Jillian
Cuellar.
The processing of this collection was generously supported by
Arcadia.
Carol Marie Waymire is a California-based lawyer, born in 1933 in Upper Lake, California. Coming from a poor working family,
Waymire spent her childhood moving around in the rural country of Northern California before settling in Santa Rosa with her
mother and siblings at the age of sixteen after her parents’ divorce. She graduated from Santa Rosa High School where she
was involved in sports (basketball, volleyball, the Girls Athletics Association) as well as other extramural activities and
the Honor Society. Waymire was the first of her family to go to college, graduating from San Jose State University in 1956
with a major in Social Sciences and a minor in English. She taught junior high school for a number of years before travelling
to Ghana for two years (1961-63) with the then newly formed Peace Corps to teach English at a government school for girls.
While she later questioned the motivations and consequences of the Peace Corps’ work abroad, the experience shaped the path
that Waymire was to take. It led her back to school to earn a Masters in teaching English as a Second Language at UCLA (1966),
after which she taught ESL for more than ten years in Los Angeles at the Evans Adult School.
Her experience teaching non-English speaking adults, largely people from Asia and Latin America who faced poverty and racial
and class discrimination yet had no resources or recourse to legal support, is what drew Waymire to pursue law. These experiences
and her own struggles supporting an aging grandmother, who had a stroke and little medical support, turned Waymire towards
socialism as an answer to the over-arching problems she identified in the capitalist system that had failed her family and
her students. Waymire received her law degree from The People’s College of Law (1977- 1981), a private, non-profit law school
in downtown Los Angeles which offers a part-time, four-year evening Juris Doctor program aimed at progressive social change
and social justice. As a lawyer, Waymire was interested in immigration law, rights of undocumented workers, racial and sexual
discrimination, workers rights on the job, and child custody for gay parents.
As a socialist feminist, Waymire was active in the lesbian, gay and feminist activism in Los Angeles, and California more
broadly. As evidenced in this collection, she was involved in the organizations and causes such as the LA Women’s Forum, Lesbian
Feminists of LA, and the movement against Proposition 6 in 1978. More generally, she was active on issues such as gay rights,
violence against women, and abortion.
This collection contains materials collected by Carol Waymire. It is primarily comprised of periodicals, but also includes
ephemera and informational literature; these materials are all related to her lesbian, gay, feminist, and/or socialist interests.
The periodicals, which make up the bulk of the collection, cover a wide range of cultural, political and economic interests
related to gay rights and women’s rights issues. These include LA-based publications as well as those from California and
the rest of the country.
This collection also includes a number of materials from organizations and events in which Waymire was involved or interested,
such as flyers, programs, mailings, and informational pamphlets. It also includes informational literature on women’s health,
socialist feminism, and socialism, as well as a few meeting minutes and notes from organizational meetings in which Waymire
was involved, like the LA Women’s Forum.
This collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Periodicals, 1974-1993
- Series 2: Personal Papers and Ephemera, 1910-1985